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You've discovered one bane of many of the WOS.

I'm not familiar with cygwin, but generally you can get around spaces in 
filenames and directories by putting a backslash before the space (to 
"escape" it) or putting it or the whole file/directory name in quotes.


hth,
ken

Ixnay Amenay at 06:51 (UTC-0800) on 18 Feb 2003 said:

= cygwin> pwd
= c:/Program Files
= cygwin> 
= 
= M-x dirs
= 
= "Couldn't cd"
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